The remote landscape of southeastern Oregon is receiving additional protections. The Bureau of Land Management has finalized its resource management plan for the southeast corner of the state and it includes protections for parts of the Owyhee and Malheur Rivers and canyon lands in the region. Michael O Casey, deputy director of forest policy and Northwest programs for the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, said it s an exciting announcement, which will protect sensitive landscape from activities like surface development and road building. .
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Tribes in far northeastern California are pressing President Joe Biden to create a new national monument about 30 miles from Mount Shasta. The Pit River Tribe is asking the president to use his powers under the Antiquities Act to create the new Sáttítla National Monument on just over 205,000 acres in the Medicine Lake Highlands. Radley Davis, an advocate for the Sáttítla National Monument and a citizen of the Illmawi Band of the Pit River Tribe, said the area is a very important watershed. .
KLAMATH BASIN, Ore. & WASHINGTON, D.C. Oregon s U.S. Senators say $72,000,000 in federal funds are going to the Klamath Basin for ecosystem restoration and to "Support Collaboration that Drives